Tales of Time and Space Author:Ross R. Olney (Editor) From some of the best sci-fi writers of the mid-twentieth century, an entertaining sci-fi anthology. The stories were originally published in science fiction magazines between 1946 and 1966. Good young adult fiction sci-fi from some of the best sci-fi writers of the mid-twentieth century, with an underlying horror element in sev... more »eral of the stories.
Contents:
Yesterday's Fantasy, Today's Fact-an Introduction • essay by Ross R. Olney
Tales of Time and Space • interior artwork by Harvey Kidder
All the Time in the World (1952) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke: a title that turns out to be an inside joke. Or a bad pun. A sneaky thief discovers that time travel robbery isn't all it is cracked up to be.
Puppet Show (1962) / short story by Fredric Brown: a puppet show used to test us for first contact...psychological testing to discover if you will have problems with aliens, and not make a donkey of yourself.
Birds of a Feather (1958) / novelette by Robert Silverberg: about a zoo or an alien circus depending on how you look at it. A somewhat bizarre carny has dodgy characters from more than one planet.
Clutch of Morpheus (1946) / short story by Larry Sternig: not about the Geek god of dreams but it does have to do with sleep. Or lack of it. The only man alive that has never needed to sleep is the only man that can save the planet from an astronomical event that will do worse than put the populace to sleep, in the end.
The Last Command [Bolo] (1967) / short story by Keith Laumer: from the Bolo series: A Bolo is a cybernetic supertank, basically. An old inactive Bolo comes to life. LNE's struggle to perform his duty under dire circumstances and his former CO's struggle to do his duty by stopping him .
Fog (1951) / short story by William Campbell Gault: an alien invasion. A young bloke has to make a horrible decision during an alien invasion.
The Martian Crown Jewels (1958) / short story by Poul Anderson: an alien version of Sherlock Holmes. An adventure for the Martian equivalent of the Great Detective.
Of Missing Persons (1955) / short story by Jack Finney: about finding a way out of this rat race and failing. Badly. A gullible young bloke wants to get the hell out of the 50s, and is offered a trip to another world.